- Register for a dynamic DNS service. Any good search engine can point you to a good service.
- Install ddclient using the command
apt-get install ddclient
. The installer will ask questions about the newly-registered dynamic dns account. No further configuration seems needed. - Find the dynamic dns address, which is the router's IP address a couple ways.
route | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | tail -n+4 | head -n+1 # If on the LAN dig +short myaccount.dyndns.org # Elsewhere on the internet nslookup myaccount.dyndns.org ns.dyndns.org # Another way from the internet http://www.dnscog.com/dig/myaccount.dyndns.org/ # As a web page
I document my adventures and problems so that I remember my mistakes, and perhaps you may learn something.
I'm not a programmer, nor a computer expert.
I'm just a tinkering guy in Milwaukee with a store and three kids to keep me busy.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Add a dynamic DNS client to the router/gateway
A ddns client will allow access to future SSH, VPN and other external services to access the server from the internet.
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